Welcome to Issue 69 of our Journal the editors December 2013 Editorial Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, At Berkeley, and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell both screened at this years Toronto International Film Festival. John Dentino’s For I Know My Weakness screened at the New Orlean...
Captain Phillips: Colliding with the Real Joseph Natoli December 2013 Feature Articles "One of the most remarkable things about us is also one of the easiest to overlook: each time we collide with the real, we deepen our understanding of...
When Korine Filmed Culkin:(Dis)placing the Child Star in Sunday Jacques de Villiers December 2013 Feature Articles In a style that suits the brashness of its auteur subject, I would like to get straight to the point: Harmony Korine is a filmmaker obsessed with the ...
“Everything is dead but the motor still turns”: An Interview with Albert Serra Daniel Fairfax December 2013 Feature Articles Albert Serra It was with some trepidation that I watched Catalonian director Albert Serra’s Historia de la meva mort (The Story of My Death) at th...
Three Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman: The Criterion Edition of Stromboli, Europe ’51 and Journey to Italy Greg Gerke December 2013 Feature Articles How did Italian cinema manage to become so big when from Rossellini to Visconti and from Antonioni to Fellini, no one recorded sound with images? A ...
Memory’s Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley’s Theory of Autobiography Leah Anderst December 2013 Feature Articles Fig 1. Sarah Polley filming with a Super 8 camera in Stories We Tell Near the beginning of Sarah Polley’s newest film, Stories We Tell (2012), an ...
Animation Diagnostics: Power and the Loop J. Ronald Green December 2013 Feature Articles The structural filmmakers—such as Peter Kubelka, Kurt Kren, Tony Conrad, Bruce Conner, George Landow, Paul Sharits, Birgit and Wilhelm Hein, Ken Jacob...
Reasoned Arguments: A Conversation with Frederick Wiseman about At Berkeley Darren Hughes December 2013 Feature Articles Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education sy...
Ethics in the Immersive Documentary John Dentino December 2013 Feature Articles An elderly Cajun recalls his life spent in the Louisiana bayous for decades as he has struggled to survive on the meager income of a crabber and oyste...
Tokyo 1969: Revolutionary Image Thieves in a Disintegrating City Stephen Barber December 2013 Feature Articles Tokyo's period of acute urban unrest extended across the 1960s, beginning with widespread rioting, and demonstrations around the parliament building, ...
The Complete Rohmer Bruce Perkins December 2013 Feature Articles Potemkine films have rendered all Eric Rohmer admirers a great service. Their “Eric Rohmer, L'intégrale” is a remarkable attempt to assemble as compl...
Film as Art and Art as Film: The Cinematic Concept in Isa Genzken’s Art Practice Toby Ashraf December 2013 Feature Articles It is quite unusual to see Isa Genzken naked. In Zwei Frauen im Gefecht (Two Women in Combat, 1972) the artist takes her clothes off all the time. In ...
Another Look at Germaine Dulac’s The Seashell and the Clergyman Maryann De Julio December 2013 Feature Articles As a director and theoretician of experimental film, Germaine Dulac proclaimed her goal to make “pure” cinema, which she spoke of as “musically constr...
Bringing the War Back Home: An Interview with Jonathan Teplitzky on The Railway Man Tom Ryan December 2013 Feature Articles Jonathan Teplitzky. Photo: Debi Enker A $16 million Australia-UK co-production, Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man tells the story of Second Lie...
Aesthetic Nationalism in English-Canadian Cinema William Beard December 2013 Feature Articles “The question of national cinema has been ultimately one of aesthetics and taste.” –Charles Acland (1) “It is something of a challenge...to think a...
“Screen Worship”: The 2013 Adelaide Film Festival Kath Dooley December 2013 Festival Reports It’s all about creating doorways. This was the message of writer/director Scott Hicks, winner of the 2013 Don Dunstan Award for outstanding contributi...
Everything is Under Control: Ai Weiwei’s Film Curation at the 11th CPH:DOX Pamela Cohn December 2013 Festival Reports The case is against the company Fake. …When I came out , I asked: “What is the economic problem?” They said: “This has nothing to do with you, it’s ab...
Cinema is Dead. Long Live Cinema. The 38th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2013 Festival Reports By coincidence, the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival began and ended for me with strikingly similar images. The first film I saw, Jafar Panahi...
Killer in the Rain: The Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud December 2013 Festival Reports It rained during most of my stay at the latest Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) – a thick, persistent, almost sweet, drizzle that covered ...
A Cinema Fest for All: The 18th Busan International Film Festival Eugene Kwon December 2013 Festival Reports When one first visits the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), it is neither the films nor the red carpet that make the strongest impression. Rat...
Protagonists and Perpetrators: The 13th Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Roger Macy December 2013 Festival Reports Who is the author of a documentary film? This was just one question that arose repeatedly during the week of the Yamagata International Documentary Fi...
The Essentials of Narrative: The 51st New York Film Festival Joshua Sperling December 2013 Festival Reports After twenty-five years under the stewardship of Richard Peña, the New York Film Festival presented its 51st event with a new director, Kent Jones. Th...
“Pordenone Trembles”: The 32nd Giornate del Cinema Muto Daniel Fairfax December 2013 Festival Reports On arrival in Pordenone, the city is very much as I expect it: a nondescript small town in northern Italy, centred on its vibrant piazza, with an arch...
Bridges and Streams: the 7th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain December 2013 Festival Reports Returning for its seventh edition after a three-year hiatus, the Greek Film Archives’ Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival proved an ambitiously programme...
October Love Song: the 51st Viennale Daniel Fairfax November 2013 Festival Reports There are festivals that are objectively deemed to be ‘major’, and then there are festivals that have a special place in our individual hearts. The Vi...
Weird Science: The 54th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Bill Mousoulis November 2013 Festival Reports The “Greek Weird Wave” just got weirder. Alexandros Avranas’ Miss Violence (first unveiled at Venice) had its premiere screening on home soil at this ...
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins Laura Henderson December 2013 Book Reviews To say that the American independent film scene is the product of serendipity is an exercise in colossal understatement. Like a kaleidoscope clicking ...
Back to Freud! Superbitch! Alfred Hitchcock’s 50-Year Obsession with Jack the Ripper and the Eternal Prostitute. A Psycho-analytic Interpretation by Theodore Price Ken Mogg December 2013 Book Reviews The explanation for the Woman Double theme of The Virgin and The Whore, which I would like to believe is common cultural knowledge by now, is brillian...
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka Swagato Chakravorty December 2013 Book Reviews Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA) and Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton, University of Turku) have pursued individual routes of inquiry into media archaeolo...
John Wayne’s World: Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties, by Russell Meeuf Hannah Graves December 2013 Book Reviews The silhouette. The swagger. That drawl. While John Wayne remains one of Hollywood’s most recognisable stars he has often been reduced to caricature. ...
The Horror Sensorium by Angela Ndalianis Leon Gurevitch December 2013 Book Reviews There are a few rare pleasures you get to experience when reading The Horror Sensorium by Angela Ndalianis. Many academics, having established themsel...
Zéro de conduite Bruce Hodsdon December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jean Vigo’s place in cinema history is grounded in less than 170 minutes of screen time: Á propos de Nice (1930), Zéro de conduite (1933) and L’Atalan...
Hôtel du Nord Inge Fossen December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The legendary collaboration with radical poet and supremely gifted scenarist Jacques Prévert, who was associated with the broad Leftist Popular Front ...
Le Quai des brumes Tony Williams November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) opens on a fog-swept, darkened rural road leading to the port of Le Havre. A truck driver narrowly avoids cras...
Pépé le Moko Brad Weismann November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Come weez me to zee Casbah!” This famous Hollywood misquote, and the amorous adventures of the animated skunk Pépé le Pew, might seem to constitut...
L’Etrange Monsieur Victor Ioana-Lucia Demczuk November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jean Grémillon’s L’Étrange Monsieur Victor (1938) tells the story of a Toulon shopkeeper living a double life. Grémillon started his career as a music...
La Chienne Darragh O’Donoghue November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Now that I’m somebody, I’d much rather be nobody” sighs the title character, Lulu (Janie Marèse), of Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931) to her pimp Dédé...
Politics and Metaphysics of Jean Vigo’s A propos de Nice Hugo Santander Ferreira November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Historians of cinema have pointed out the influence of Dziga Vertov on Jean Vigo’s documentary A propos de Nice (Concerning Nice, 1930). The richness ...
La Bête humaine: Unquiet Desperation Matthew Sorrento November 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Though canonised as one of the cinema’s greatest directors, Jean Renoir was preeminently a master of capturing energy. He depicts humanity rumbling wi...
Contemporary Australian Filmmakers Dossier Adrian Danks December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers This dossier (the first of a projected series) on contemporary Australian filmmakers focuses on currently active directors who started making audiovis...
Gregor Jordan Greg Dolgopolov December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers Gregor Jordan (b. 1966, Sale, Victoria) is a versatile Australian director recognised for his capacity to work across multiple platforms (cinema, tele...
Paratexts and the Commercial Promotion of Film Authorship: James Wan and Saw Tyson Wils December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers Introduction This article discusses one way Malaysian-Australian James Wan (b. 1977-) (1) can be considered or constructed as an author. Wan is best ...
Disrespectful Indigenisation: The Films of Robert Connolly Matthew Campora December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers In this article, I will examine the work of contemporary Australian filmmaker Robert Connolly (b. 1967), a director who could be considered amongst th...
Rachel Perkins: Creating Change Through Blackfella Films Felicity Collins December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers Since her traineeship with the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in 1988, Rachel Perkins has become an iconic figure of Australian Indig...
Ana Kokkinos Lisa French December 2013 Contemporary Australian Filmmakers plunge their characters into all kinds of darkness, where a sense of ultimate self may be found or, more disturbingly, lost. Audiences prepared to me...
2013 World Poll – Part 1 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll THE ENTRIES PART 1 Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Michael Anderson Geoff Andrew Julian Antos Armas Miguel Charlotte...
2013 World Poll – Part 2 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll Lucas Hammer Lee Hill Wai Ho Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Christoph Huber David Hudson Darren Hughes Tara J...
2013 World Poll – Part 3 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll Darragh O’Donoghue SvenErik Olsen George Papadopoulos Michael Pattison Yoana Pavlova Antoni Peris Sierra Pettengill Raymond Phathanaviran...
